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Building trades unions in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are successfully fighting for offshore wind projects that create good union jobs and revitalize the economy. In the process, they’re showing how to defend clean energy from Donald Trump.

Workers must organize for power, while capitalists wield it individually through property rights. This fundamental asymmetry, creates a chain of obstacles that make working-class collective action uniquely difficult.

“Congress continues to expand military spending while denying investments in the programs that will truly build a safer, healthier future for working- and middle-class families,” said Sen. Ed Markey, who voted no.

UAW president Shawn Fain, speaking at a Center for Working-Class Politics and Jacobin event, emphasized the need for a political program that addresses workers’ most basic issues — and how a broad strike in 2028 could put them front and center.

Social self-defense against the MAGA juggernaut can be the starting point for creating the world we want beyond MAGA.

Communities across the United States are shutting down detention facilities and refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement.

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Trump's approach displays a flawed understanding of peace itself. Given a paradigm that prioritizes economic access over reconciliation, even a cautious form of optimism is hard to justify.

The Sunrise Movement, which led calls for a Green New Deal, will organize against Trump’s attacks on universities. “How are we going to win on climate under authoritarianism?”